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Political crimes and offenses

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Crime

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Images about Political crimes and offenses

2 images from works
  • The Bastille, Paris. Line engraving by J.F. Borgnet after J.M. Gudin (?).
  • The death of President Abraham Lincoln in Washington, 1865. Coloured lithograph.

Works from the collections

4 works

    • Ephemera

    A proclamation for discovering such as own, or will not disown a late treasonable declaration of war against His Majesty, and the horrid principle of assassination.

    England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II) | Date: 1685
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    Political banishments being some considerations thereon, and in what cases pronounc'd. I. The case of attainders stated. II. With an Enquiry into the Nature of Banishments among the Athenians and Romans; and wherein the Exostracism, or Banishment by Vote, practis'd by the Former, differs from our Parliamentary Sentence. III. Whether there be more mercy in exile, or confinement, for life. By a true Briton.

    True Briton | Date: 1723
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    The death of President Abraham Lincoln in Washington, 1865. Coloured lithograph.

    | Reference: 60i
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    The Bastille, Paris. Line engraving by J.F. Borgnet after J.M. Gudin (?).

    Gudin, Jean Marie, approximately 1782-1824. | Reference: 21512i

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